vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-7478: Reachable Assertion

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
May 15, 2017
Added
Sep 20, 2017
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

OpenVPN version 2.3.12 and newer is vulnerable to unauthenticated Denial of Service of server via received large control packet. Note that this issue is fixed in 2.3.15 and 2.4.2.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-openvpn
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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